The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-05-05
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Items Of Interest From Both Sides
of the Divide.
Notes Clipped and Condensed From
Exchanges Published Within
the Territory.
Corvallis has fire-bug:
Butte has total of $40 ST. nps.
Butte's bullion shipments for last week
were $io7,840.
Jessie Clayton suicided at Miles City
last week with morphine.
There will be about 250,OOO pounds of
cattle hides shipped from Benton.
There is talk OF railroad from Boze-
men towards Butte, via Red Bluff.
City Marshal Reed assumed the duties
of his Office in Helena on Monday last.
The Deer Lodge railroad depot is to be
moved from it's present location up into
the town.
The Harlem cattle company will drive
about 10000 head Of cattle into Montana
this year from Indian territory.
The Anglo-Montana company, formed
to operate the Wormer property at Bald
Butte, is about winding up it's affairs.
! The contract for the ties, bridge timber
and track-laying for the Bitter Root rail-
road has been let to A. B. Hammond.
The mother of D. G. Mcmillan, presi-
dent Of the College of Montana, died at
Deer Lodge on Thursday afternoon last.
The district court is now in session at
Deer Lodge, w. J. Galbraith presiding.
The next term will occur on the fourth
Monday in November.
The Indian depreciation claim of Vic
tor Durand, of Deer Lodge county, for
$3.50 by the Pen d'Oreille Indians has
been disallowed.
The report that Judge McLeary, of
Bozeman, intends resigning his position
on the bench and returning to Texas
causes universal surprise and regret.
An east-bound Northern Pacific freight
train jumped the track last Friday few
miles west of Gallatin, and fourteen cars
went over an embankment. Nobody in
jured.
Bailey & Billings, bankers at Billings,
have bought the stock and business of
Clark & Co., of that place and will carry
on tho business with T. w. Kee as man.
ager.
The special car of the Northwest Mag
azine, of st. Paul, is now in Butte, and
the July number of the magazine will
contain an illustrated article on that
camp.
Henry Mcdonald, of Fort Benton, has
sold his entire ranch located on Arrow
Creek with improvements horses, cattle
and between 5000 and 1000 sheep to
Chas. Gibson for $35,0OO.
The Livington coal and coke company
will Immediately begin the building of
railroad to their mines near Livingston.
Material for fifteen or twenty additional
coke ovens has been ordered.
Two companies Of cavalry and one of
infantry will shortly be sent from Fort
Assinaboine to the Sweet Grass Hills
to stop the raids the Bloods are making
on the ranchmen of that section.
Judge N. W. Mcconnell reached Hell
ena last Saturday from his home in Ten
nessee. He is described by the Indepen-
dent as man of robust physique and
genial manner and is much pleased with
the country.
The firm of J. J. Cole & Co., fancy gr<,-
CcIS dU hc1c1d, I1dOS OH Aesou
Saturday for the be,jeft Of it's creditors
The firm had fair and growing patron
age and the failure is ascribed to bad
management. Herman Barnett is the
ssignee.
Governor Leslie has issued procla
nation forbidding the importation of cat
tie from Illinois, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Dis
trict of Columbia, Virginia, Texas and
Vermont, owing to cattle disease existing
in those localities.
Jim Bates, of Helena, got considerably
the best of Jack Lawrence in the twenty
round glove fight at Maguires Opera
House, in Butte, last Thursday, before an
audience of 800. Lawrence claimed a